Albert Einstein Quotes

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• Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where…
• It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge.
• Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.
• The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see.
• Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.
• The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.
• Once you stop learning, you start dying
• Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before,…
• The Universe is difficult to comprehend because it is obvious.
• Genius abhors consensus because when consensus is reached, thinking stops. Stop nodding your head.
• You can't use an old map to explore a new world.
• Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.
• If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as…
• If you feed your mind as often as you feed your stomach, then you'll never have to worry about feeding your stomach or a roof…
• Incompetence is the true crisis.
• Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn
• I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in the silence, and the truth comes to me.
• I soon learned how to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside everything else, from the multitude of…
• It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher.
• The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for…

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